Insult

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The state-run Anadolu news agency reported on July 10, 2014, that Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdoğan asked the Ankara Public Prosecutor's Office to launch a criminal investigation against Bülent Keneş, editor-in-chief of the English-language daily newspaper Today's Zaman, on charges of "insulting a public official."

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New York, August 25, 2011--Charges against prominent Omani journalist and filmmaker
Youssef al-Haj should be dropped immediately, the Committee to Protect
Journalists said today. Al-Haj's trial over
an article he wrote that allegedly accused the Ministry of Justice of
corruption began on August 14 but was postponed until this Sunday. At the
August 14 hearing, the judge ordered that the newspaper that
published al-Haj's story, Al-Zaman,
not print any details of the case, local human rights activists told CPJ.

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New York, December 16, 2010--The Committee to Protect Journalists today denounced the imprisonment in northern Tajikistan of Makhmadyusuf Ismoilov, a reporter with the Dushanbe-based independent weekly Nuri Zindagi. Ismoilov was arrested in Sogd region on November 23, but the regional press first reported on the case on Monday. Ismoilov is currently being held in a pretrial facility in the city of Khujand, according to the local press.

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New York, September 2, 2010--The
Committee to Protect Journalists calls on authorities in Kuala Lumpur to drop a
criminal charge against blogger Irwan Abdul Rahman. He was charged today with "intent to hurt" in connection with a satirical
entry on his blog, nose4news,
that made fun of Malaysia's state-run power company Tenaga, news accounts said.

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New York, March 19, 2010—A Turkish appellate
court should overturn the unjust convictions of publisher and editor Haci Bogatekin, who faces several years in
prison on various “insult” charges, the Committee to Protect Journalists
said today.